In an interview with UN News’s Daniel Johnson, Andrew Bredenkamp of Translators Without Borders, explains how the non-governmental organization is partnering with tech giants including Facebook, Google and Microsoft on projects that will deepen understanding of the needs of at-risk communities to save their languages from disappearing.…

Thursday, 21 February is International Mother Language Day – a day set aside to promote linguistic and cultural diversity and multilingualism. It is estimated that every two weeks a language goes extinct. But why try to protect these languages? What is the real significance of this Day? UN News’s Paulina Greer posed these questions to the Perma ...…

The nuclear arms race “is back on”, the head of the Conference on Disarmament has warned. UN News’s Daniel Johnson spoke to Michael Møller who is the Secretary-General of the Conference, the only multilateral venue for disarmament discussions. ­In the interview, Mr. Møller explains why the forum has been deadlocked for more than two decades and ...…

The GCF’s Executive-Director, Javier Manzanares, was in New York this month to meet UN chief António Guterres and talk to diplomats about the importance and operation of the Fund.When Mr. Manzanares came into to the UN News studios, he said the Fund’s investment message was getting through to UN Member States. Conor Lennon started by asked him ...…

Rapid action is needed in every region of the world to get countries back on track in the global fight against measles, amid a projected near-doubling in the number of cases, since 2017. That’s according to Dr. Katherine O’Brien from the World Health Organization (WHO). Here she is speaking to Sarah Mbengue from UN News in Geneva.…

Preventing irreversible hearing loss from listening to loud music is possible, the World Health Organization (WHO) says. In an interview with UN News’s Daniel Johnson, Dr Shelly Chadha from WHOoutlined the agency’s latest recommendations.

From its base in South Sudan’s capital, Juba, Radio Miraya – the station run by the UN Mission in the country, UNMISS – is tasked with promoting dialogue, tolerance and peace – the three interlinked themes of World Radio Day 2019. In an interview with UN News’s Daniel Johnson, presenter Lucy Jubara explains how the radio station accomplishes it ...…

Basic rules such as “keeping your hands clean and cooking food thoroughly” contribute to food safety, but when someone is living in a place with poor sanitation or where food insecurity is a reality, “it’s hard to make good choices”. That’s according to David Massey, Communications Specialist at the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).…

Women can “punch through the glass ceiling” and do “incredible work” in science.This is the message from Lisa Harvey Smith, the Australian Government’s Women in STEM Ambassador.In this interview, Julia Dean from the UN Information Centre in Australia started by asking her what it is that she loves about science.…

Chief of Mission of the International Organization for Migration (IOM), Frantz Celestin, told UN News’s Daniel Johnson about the extremists’ use of “hit-and-run” tactics in north-east Nigeria and explained what the priorities are now for the aid teams coping with mass displacement and overcrowded protection camps.…

As a UN report reveals a “quantum leap” in the number of AI patents being filed around the world, it isn’t the tech that we should be worried about, but the way that we choose to use it.In an interview with UN News, Kriti Sharma warns of the dangers of assuming that AI tools are free from bias or prejudice.…

For World Cancer Day, on 4 February, Dr Etienne Krug from the World Health Organization (WHO), talks to Sarah Mbengue from UN News about cancer pain and global challenges that remain in tackling the disease.

Nigerian refugees are “too traumatized to return” anytime soon, according to a senior official from the UN humanitarian affairs office (OCHA), talking to UN News on the border with Cameroon. Daniel Dickinson was at the border for UN News on Friday, and began by asking Mr. Munié to describe the scene around them.…

Yumbi in the western Democratic Republic of the Congo resembles a “ghost city” in the aftermath of a days-long massacre last month which left at least 535 victims. That’s according to Florence Marchal, spokesperson for the UN Mission in the country, MONUSCO. Ms. Marchal spoke with UN News's Pascal Sim regarding the brutal inter-ethnic killings ...…

The World Health Organization (WHO) says it’s extremely concerned about the deteriorating humanitarian situation in Al-Hol camp in Syria’s Al-Hasakeh Governorate, where 11 infants are reported to have died due to cold, in the past two days alone. Abdelmonem Makki spoke to WHO representative in Syria, Elizabeth Hoff, who said staff in the camp w ...…

Syria: ‘Violence, displacement’ and cold kill 11 infants ‘in the past two days’ Boom in Artificial Intelligence patents, points to ‘quantum leap’ in tech UN appeals for more than $162 million in aid to Ukraine

The first ever Arab woman director to be nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, has told UN News that she had ‘a duty’ to record the reality of the refugee crisis playing out on the streets of her native Lebanon. Nadine Labaki is the director of Capernaum, a harrowing drama seen through the eyes of a 12-year-old boy who decides to ...…

“We need to ensure a stronger protection environment” and “raise awareness” over the killings of girls and boys in Tanzania, believed to be linked to witchcraft rituals, said Álvaro Rodríguez, the United Nations Resident Coordinator in the country, strongly condemning the recent killing of ten children in the south of Njombe district. Mr. Rodrí ...…

In late January, David Sheff and Vicky Cornell joined a panel discussion on addiction organised by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). Mr. Sheff’s memoir about his son’s addiction is now a Hollywood movie, and Ms. Cornell was married to Soundgarden's Chris Cornell, whose suicide she has attributed to prescription drugs that altered his me ...…

“If we look at what Lake Chad was and what it is today, we understand that climate change is real, and it needs to be addressed”, the newly-appointed UN Special Representative to the African Union (AU) has told UN News. Based in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa since the beginning of January, Ms. Tetteh told Cristina Silveiro what her prioriti ...…

Nearly $4 billion needed to protect 41 million children from conflict and disaster 700 people detained in one day of Venezuela demonstrations, dozens children Palestine refugees more vulnerable now than in year 2000, warns UN agency chief

An important lesson for young people to learn from the Holocaust is that individuals “have more power than they realize” to make sure that history is not forgotten, according to Sara Bloomfield, Director of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. Commemorating Holocaust Remembrance Day, Ms. Bloomfield said youth the world over had a responsibility to ...…

‘Where there is anti-Semitism, no one else is safe’: UN Chief tells Holocaust commemoration Latin America must condemn violence against Venezuelan refugees and migrants: senior UN official ‘Preparedness is crucial’ in fight against Ebola: health workers vaccinated in South Sudan

About one third of all food which is grown in the Middle East and North Africa is lost or wasted, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Governments in the region have pledged to reduce food loss and waste by 50 per cent by 2024, and the agency along with the Italian government, is training farmers and wholesalers to reduc ...…

“A global economic downturn and a lack of political leadership are a combination that could end very badly for the world’s economy”, a leading UN financial expert has warned. In an interview with Daniel Johnson of UN News, Richard Kozul-Wright, a globalization expert and Director with the Trade and Development agency UNCTAD, gives his assessmen ...…

While the global economy will continue to grow at a steady pace of around three percent in 2019 and 2020, that growth is expected to be uneven and may fail to reach where it is most needed. This is according to the 2019 World Economic Situation and Prospects Report, launched on Monday. Dawn Holland, Chief of the Global Economic Monitoring Branc ...…

Call for probe into deadly violence against Zimbabwe protests Deadly attack on Nigerian town leaves tens of thousands of people without aid DRC Ebola outbreak can be handled effectively, despite challenges: WHO

An attack by an armed group on the isolated town of Rann in north-east Nigeria has cut aid to tens of thousands of people and uprooted many more, UN humanitarians said on Friday. With the latest information, here’s Samantha Newport from the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), speaking to Daniel Johnson from UN News.…

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